Upstream information

CVE-2008-5557 at MITRE

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in ext/mbstring/libmbfl/filters/mbfilter_htmlent.c in the mbstring extension in PHP 4.3.0 through 5.2.6 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted string containing an HTML entity, which is not properly handled during Unicode conversion, related to the (1) mb_convert_encoding, (2) mb_check_encoding, (3) mb_convert_variables, and (4) mb_parse_str functions.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having critical severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 10
Vector AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Complete
Integrity Impact Complete
Availability Impact Complete
SUSE Bugzilla entries: 462499 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 568527 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2
  • apache2-mod_php5 >= 5.2.14-0.7.24.1
  • php5 >= 5.2.14-0.7.24.1
  • php5-bcmath >= 5.2.14-0.7.24.1
  • php5-bz2 >= 5.2.14-0.7.24.1
  • php5-calendar >= 5.2.14-0.7.24.1
  • php5-ctype >= 5.2.14-0.7.24.1
  • php5-curl >= 5.2.14-0.7.24.1
  • php5-dba >= 5.2.14-0.7.24.1
  • php5-dbase >= 5.2.14-0.7.24.1
  • php5-dom >= 5.2.14-0.7.24.1
  • php5-exif >= 5.2.14-0.7.24.1
  • php5-fastcgi >= 5.2.14-0.7.24.1
  • php5-ftp >= 5.2.14-0.7.24.1
  • php5-gd >= 5.2.14-0.7.24.1
  • php5-gettext >= 5.2.14-0.7.24.1
  • php5-gmp >= 5.2.14-0.7.24.1
  • php5-hash >= 5.2.14-0.7.24.1
  • php5-iconv >= 5.2.14-0.7.24.1
  • php5-json >= 5.2.14-0.7.24.1
  • php5-ldap >= 5.2.14-0.7.24.1
  • php5-mbstring >= 5.2.14-0.7.24.1
  • php5-mcrypt >= 5.2.14-0.7.24.1
  • php5-mysql >= 5.2.14-0.7.24.1
  • php5-odbc >= 5.2.14-0.7.24.1
  • php5-openssl >= 5.2.14-0.7.24.1
  • php5-pcntl >= 5.2.14-0.7.24.1
  • php5-pdo >= 5.2.14-0.7.24.1
  • php5-pear >= 5.2.14-0.7.24.1
  • php5-pgsql >= 5.2.14-0.7.24.1
  • php5-pspell >= 5.2.14-0.7.24.1
  • php5-shmop >= 5.2.14-0.7.24.1
  • php5-snmp >= 5.2.14-0.7.24.1
  • php5-soap >= 5.2.14-0.7.24.1
  • php5-suhosin >= 5.2.14-0.7.24.1
  • php5-sysvmsg >= 5.2.14-0.7.24.1
  • php5-sysvsem >= 5.2.14-0.7.24.1
  • php5-sysvshm >= 5.2.14-0.7.24.1
  • php5-tokenizer >= 5.2.14-0.7.24.1
  • php5-wddx >= 5.2.14-0.7.24.1
  • php5-xmlreader >= 5.2.14-0.7.24.1
  • php5-xmlrpc >= 5.2.14-0.7.24.1
  • php5-xmlwriter >= 5.2.14-0.7.24.1
  • php5-xsl >= 5.2.14-0.7.24.1
  • php5-zip >= 5.2.14-0.7.24.1
  • php5-zlib >= 5.2.14-0.7.24.1
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 GA apache2-mod_php5-5.2.14-0.7.24.1

Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SLES for SAP Applications 11 SP2 php5 Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 php5 Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP1 php5 Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2 php5 Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Enterprise Server 11 SP1 for SAP Enterprise Search php5 Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 php5 Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 php5 Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 LTSS php5 Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1-LTSS php5 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 php5 Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 LTSS php5 Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2-LTSS php5 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 php5 Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP1 php5 Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP2 php5 Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Business All-in-One 11 SP1 php5 Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 php5 Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP1 php5 Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP2 php5 Unsupported

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 06:37:15 2013
CVE page last modified: Tue Jul 2 15:15:45 2024